6: Create a Terrain backdrop that stretches to the Horizon using Houdini and Mapbox.

Part 6 in the God Tier Landscape Series. If you find this content useful, please subscribe to my channel as that provides me with tonnes of motivation to keep going and raise the quality bar in each video. In this workshop we look at how to blend between High-Res Lidar Terrain for the foreground, and Low-Res Satellite Data for the background Terrain. We will create a truly seamless result which creates the illusion of an endless terrain stretching off in every direction, without the need for forced perspective, 2D skyboxes or awkwardly placed Cliffs and Mountains. To achieve this, we use the Labs Toolset, and in particular, the Mapbox Node. To use the Mapbox node, you need an API key, so here is the default public one: pk.eyJ1IjoiY3VwbWNjYWtlcnMiLCJhIjoiY2p0ZW1pYTRsMDF0ZjQ0bWh5dmVobWE2MSJ9.kwIJru0GfAgzPzGWSgTbfA Alternatively, you can create an account on the website: https://www.mapbox.com/ As always, let me know what you think in the comments! Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:31 Labs Toolset and Mapbox Node 03:55 Finding the mapbox data around our LIDAR tiles 05:51 Subscription Nudge 06:31 End of Subscription Nudge 07:07 Attribute Delete 08:18 Convert Mapbox Data into Mesh 09:06 Organising the Network: Null and Object Merge 10:42 Aligning the Two Data Sets: Transform 13:51 Aligning the Data Sets 2 : Boolean, Bound, Polyreduce 16:49 Blending the Data Sets: Ray, Heightfield Mask 25:26 Cleaning the Geometry( ngons): Divide 26:53 File Export: ROP fbx Output 27:21 Import To Unreal 28:12 Fixing the Transform of the background Terrain 31:35 Conclusion